HOFFMEISTER, author of Travels in Ceylon and Parts of the Himalayas to the Borders of Thibet.
HOG, Indian wild boar, Sus Indices.
Khanzir, . . . ARAB. Porco, . . . IT., PORT.
Varaha, . BENG., BANS& Sus, Porous, . , . LAT. Handi, Mikka, . . CAN. Babi, Babi alas, MALAY. Jewadi, . . . . „ Babi utan, . .
Svun, DAN. Dukar, . . . MAHR.
Varken, Zwijn, DUT. Svinza, . . . Rus.
Cochon, Pourceau, . FR. Puerco Sr Schwein, . GER. Svin, Sw.
Paddi, GOND. Pandi,. . . . TEL.
Choiros, . . . GR. HwRB-Bwcll, WELSH.
Jangli soor, Soor, HIND.
The wild hog abounds in many parts of India, and the males attain to a very large size. It is generally believed that there is no specific differ ence between the wild hog of Europe and India. The adult males dwell apart from the herd. The wild boar is constantly hunted by Europeans on horseback, with the spear ; natives of India bunt the boar with dogs. Spearing the wild hog is one of the favourite sports of British officers in India.
All the wild hogs in the Archipelago are small animals compared with the wild boar of Europe, or even with that of continental India.
Sus VCMICOVER, so called from the fleshy excres cence on the sides of the cheeks, has a grotesque and a formidable appearance, but is in reality a timid animal. Their number in Java is immense
in particular districts.
Sus Andanianensis, Myth, a small race in the Andamans.
Sus Zeylanensis, Bluth. Mr. Blyth distinguished this from the hog common in India. The skull approaches in form that of a species from Borneo, the Sits barbatus of S. Muller.
The genus Babirussa of F. Cuvier takes its name from two Malay words, Babi, hog, and Rusa, a deer. It is the Sits babyrussa of Linnaeus, and the B. &form of Lesson, and occurs in the island of Burn or Bourou, one of the Moluccas, also in Celebes and Ternate.
Sits Papuensis is a New Guinea hog.
Porcula sylvania, Hodg., the pigmy hog of the sal forests of N. India, is the Sano band and (Thoth sur of the natives of India, and confines itself to the deep recesses of primeval forest. The adult males abide constantly with the herd, and are its habitual and resolute defenders.—Sykes' Cat. Dec. Manz. p. 11 ; Craufard, Diet. p. 152 ; Tennant's Ceylon, p. 59 ; Catalogue of 3Ianinzalia in the India House Museum.